A fine work of art by Ludwig Hohlwein

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Deutsche Reichspost Luxury telegram in large format with motif by Ludwig Hohlwein, sent in 1936.


Hohlwein was a prominent German poster artist, graphic artist, architect and painter. He was born July 27, 1874 in Wiesbaden and died September 15, 1949 in Berchtesgaden. He was considered one of the most prominent and stylistic representatives of advertising art.

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Moin Osvald21,

the graphic work of Hohlwein is very well known to me as a German collector of vintage and antique posters.
In my private collection I have several original Hohlwein posters with his very well-known advertising motifs, for example for German breweries, etc.

Unfortunately, I do not own any posters of his diverse very well-known propaganda works, which I regret very much.
Prices for these works have exploded worldwide in recent decades, to say the least.

Here a link to a 2020/2021 Hohlwein exhibition here in Wiesbaden, his place of birth in the year 1874:
Link: Ludwig Hohlwein | Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden
There are a few videos on the site also, very interesting to watch.

The flyer to the former exhibtion as a PDF file: https://www.wiesbaden.de/microsite/sam/medien/bindata/201112-Hohlwein-Flyer_Digital_klein.pdf (788 KB Download)

Thank you for sharing your Hohlwein examples, I hope to be able to look at your pictures later...

Collectors greetings from Germany!


Micha
 
In the 1990s, I bought 35 original sheets of the famous Hohlwein "Weihnachtsbier" posters on a north german flea market.

Rolled up, the seller wanted 10,- DM for it, I paid 5,- DM for the 35 posters.
All 35 posters were like fresh out of print, a typical German flea market find, in the early hours of the morning.Something like that is still possible today, almost everywhere, Hohlwein advertising from the post-war period, you probably know the market value of such posters.

It's a lot of fun looking for something like that, you rarely find anything, but if you do, then you should grab it!
I don't like to talk about today's collector's value, but it's certainly around a few thousand Euros for the 35 copies...

I don't care about the value, it's all about the "hunt", the "finding", that was and is still the kick!


Micha

Source for the photo: EBay

P.S. It needed a lot of handwork, to remove the old backing cardboard strips from the posters, but very worth to frame them finally...

I have sold and still sell most of my posters to Switzerland. I always keep one copy for my own collection.

The auction houses and gallery owners in Switzerland are very reliable, and the dealers have the very best contacts worldwide.
Shipping to Switzerland is very expensive, especially for posters and old signs.
I can't report a bad experience, and have been since the 1990s, with any business partner there.

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If you are interested, in restoring, or saving the old material for your own collection, I will be able to send you some ideas.
In earlier years, I totally messed up a lot of paper material, full of ignorance, out of sheer idiocy.

More than 650! original french posters from the 1956 movie "Notre Dame de Paris", starring Anthony Quinn as "Quasimodo"
The large piles of posters filled my whole house, too much, to handle.

The topic is extremely complicated, even before 2013, I disposed thousands of French film posters from the 1960s in a waste paper bin, definitely the worst mistake of my life.


At that time, I disposed of values worth of a several hundred thousand Euros, simply throwing them away in waste paper bins.
At the time I didn't know what to do with all the paper, definitely the mistake of my life, not a very good memory, but today it's old news, too late.

I wouldn't wish that on any real collector, but there is a German quote that stuck in my memory:
"If it ever rains porridge, then you don't have a spoon!"
That was exactly the situation at the time, I please don't wish that on you.

Several hundred posters, the best copies, are of course stored with friends in northern Germany, but I threw away a fortune back then.


Micha
 
A very interesting reference about the graphic work of Hohlwein:

The artistic work of Ludwig Hohlwein is characterized by a blatant contradiction. On the one hand, he knew how to convey dynamism and modernity with virtuosity. On the other hand, with his works he served a theme ranging from the conservative to the National Socialist spectrum. The development into one of the leading representatives of NS propaganda should not have been difficult for Hohlwein in his national-conservative self-image. Just as lastingly as Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann (1885-1957), he shaped the visual appearance of the "Third Reich".


After the Second World War, Hohlwein was initially banned from working as a politically charged person in the course of denazification. He then worked as a commercial artist in his studio in Berchtesgaden until his death. He only designed a few posters after the war, probably more because of a lack of orders as a result of the general shortage of goods in the immediate post-war period than because of his political burden.
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The link: Sammlung Online Munchner Stadtmuseum - Reklamekunst: Ludwig Hohlwein

The artist Hohlwein was awesome, without question, his entanglement in National Socialism before 1945, the man broke the neck, ultimately.


Micha
 
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Hi there,

What a beautiful early DJ poster. Thank you to Micha and Osvald21 for posting a really interesting thread. Every day is a learning day.

Best regards.....Ewan
 
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